how to add support for more Unicode characters?

Mike FABIAN mfabian at suse.de
Fri Jun 17 01:21:02 EDT 2005


"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> さんは書きました:

>>>>>> "Mike" == Mike FABIAN <mfabian at suse.de> writes:
>
>     Mike> (defun mike-list-unsupported-codepoints-range (range)
>
>     Mike> (length (mike-list-unsupported-codepoints-range '(0
>     Mike> #xFFFF)))
>     -> 41938
>
> I don't think that's a realistic estimate.

Yes, it is a rather rough estimate, but ...

> [...] and that gets us down to about 27,000 missing characters.

... it is a lot anyway and it certainly would be too slow
to define all these in site-start.el in lisp.

> Have you tried loading all of the available tables?

Which tables?

> Of those missing characters, many will be Indic; we don't support the
> compositions necessary to manipulate them yet.  Many will be extremely
> rare.  I would guess you need one of those 2-octet charsets to get
> virtually full coverage for everything that's seen in practice.

Even if it is not supported, (like Indic), it would be nice if XEmacs
didn't destroy files which contain such stuff.

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